Contents
2Commencement#
(1)Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
| Commencement information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table | The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. | 16 October 2026 |
| 2. Schedule 1 | The day after the end of the period of 14 days beginning on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent. | 30 October 2026 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2)Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3Schedules#
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1 · Amendments
27AEffect of certain instruments#
(1)In this section:
registered means registered on:
(a)the Federal Register of Legislation (within the meaning of the Legislation Act 2003); or
(b)the Register (within the meaning of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 as in force before 5 March 2016).
sanctioned goods instrument means an instrument, whether or not still in force, that:
(a)specifies or designates goods as:
(i)export sanctioned goods for a country or part of a country; or
(ii)import sanctioned goods for a country or part of a country; and
(b)was made, or purportedly made by the Minister under a provision of the regulations made for the purposes of subsection 10(1) of this Act.
Effective instruments
(2)Subsection (3) applies if, apart from this section, a sanctioned goods instrument would not have applied, or been enforceable, in relation to goods at a time before the commencement of this section only because the instrument was not registered at the time.
(3)The instrument is taken, for all purposes, to have been registered at the time.
Validity and lawfulness of things done
(4)To avoid doubt:
(a)anything done, or anything purported to have been done, by a person that would have been wholly or partly invalid or unlawful except for subsection (3) is taken for all purposes to be valid and lawful and to have always been valid and lawful, despite any effect that may have on the accrued rights of any person; and
(b)this section applies in relation to civil and criminal proceedings, including proceedings that are pending or concluded.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 12 October 2026
Senate on 13 October 2026]
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